This is traditionally a mixed tour and we are usually 'hosted' by our French Opposition very nicely indeed on the night of arrival and then again at some venue / party on the Saturday night whilst watching the match on TVs somewhere suitably Gallic.

Tickets for the match are usually available and those who would like to go to the big game are not normally disappointed.

Oh yes - sorry ..forgot the Rugby bit - you even get a chance to play to win a crudely carved giant gold cockerel whilst being horribly hungover from a very beery boozy journey with your mates ,having sung all the way from St Pancras to Gard de Nord and partied long and hard the night before , possibly having worn Bart Redmond shoes to a gay night club , and perhaps mistakenly thinking that a bar called The Banana club could ever be straight .. Kourosh - do you recognise any of this ? .